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A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement
About this book
This handbook describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement, its role in the WTO and its institutional framework and reviews the following areas: general provisions and basic principles; copyright and related rights; trademarks; geographical indications; patents; industrial designs, layout-designs, undisclosed information and anti-competitive practices; enforcement of IPRs; dispute settlement in the context of the TRIPS Agreement; TRIPS and public health; and current TRIPS issues. It contains a guide to TRIPS notifications by WTO members and describes how to access and make use of the official documentation relating to the TRIPS Agreement and related issues. Furthermore, it includes the legal texts of the TRIPS Agreement and the relevant provisions of the WIPO conventions referred to in it, as well as subsequent relevant WTO instruments.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- A HANDBOOK ON THE WTO TRIPS AGREEMENT
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES
- BOXES
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- I Introduction to the TRIPS Agreement
- II Copyright and related rights
- III Trademarks
- IV Geographical indications
- V Patents
- VI Industrial designs, layout-designs of integrated circuits, undisclosed information, anti-competitive practices
- VII Enforcement
- VIII Dispute prevention and settlement
- IX: TRIPS and Public Health
- X Current TRIPS issues*
- Appendix I
- Appendix 2
- Annexes
- Index